Automation has unrivaled potential to change our global workforce forever. Already, millions of workers (and some entire industries) have lost their jobs due to basic types of automation, like assembly line robots or search algorithms. In the next 13 years or so, we may lose up to 800 ...

Thanks to the plethora of communication and messaging apps available to the average user, unified communications (UC) is becoming more important than ever before. UC is a set of products and services designed to give employees a uniform communications experience, integrating different ...

Instead of trying to determine whether or not virtualization is a good general business practice, you need to ask yourself one simple question: Does it make sense for my business? The floodgates have officially opened. Businesses that were once reluctant to invest in the IoT are now wi...

Patents are a good step towards shielding your IP data, but they’re not a seamless solution. Legal protection regarding intellectual property isn’t definite and has some holes in it. The constant stream of big data has made this problem even worse, obscuring the specifics about origina...

As soon as the internet became mainstream, the entire travel and hospitality industry quickly pivoted. No longer did people have to visit a travel agent to plan an extensive vacation.
Today, in order for companies in the travel industry to survive, it's necessary to recognize these ch...

Big Data is literally everywhere, and consumers interact with it daily. However, it’s the marketers that recognize the value of such data and use it to perfect the customer experience. Consumers, on the other hand, are often oblivious to their contribution to the mass data that markete...

In 2017, word-of-mouth marketing will be a lucrative strategy and should allow small businesses and startups to carve out powerful niches in a marketplace that's noisier than ever.
When was the last time you paused to consider the noise on the internet? If you really take a look, it’s...

Fertile ideas that germinate out of internal collaboration are what will set your company ahead of the competition.
The era of the open-plan office is over, but that doesn’t mean collaboration should go by the wayside at your firm. Rather, all professionals need to develop new ways to...

When it comes to organizing and coordinating your data, you should start creating a simple plan today. Have you ever wondered how massive corporations achieve high levels of success and seem to be perfectly organized from the inside out? That’s because they have systems and structures ...